Laughing in the Hills (eBook)

A Season at the Racetrack

Bill Barich (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
240 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
9781634509480 (ISBN)

Infos

Bill Barich burst onto the literary scene more than twenty-five years ago with this remarkable account of racetrack life. Holed up in a cheap motel in Albany, California, only a few miles from Golden Gate Fields, he looked to the track to help him make sense of his life during a dark peiod of loss and challenge. With rare sensitivity, he captured the gritty world of the backstretch, and also its poetry, as few other writers have done. Laughing in the Hills, which was first serialized in the New Yorker, has become a classic of sporting literature and a must for anyone who loves horses and the world they create.It is a lovely, valuable book, introspective without being self-servingly so, affectionate but never saccharine in its evocation of racetrack life, witty and perceptive throughout. Jonathan Yardley, Sports IllustratedSkyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team.In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Bill Barich is the author of numerous books, among them Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California, and The Sporting Life. He has written extensively for The New Yorker, as well as Playboy and Sports Illustrated. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow in fiction.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Reiten / Pferde
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: acute eye • aleatory nature • Bankruptcy • barich • bigger size • books on bigger sizes books on golden ga • books on evolving relationships • books on jockeys • books on thoroughbred horses • Bukowski • Buoys • coinciding • Concession • Cultural Decay • daily happenings • daily racing • desperate search • elucidating • Emery • evolving relationship • fifty percent • flattened • frequenter • functional purpose • Gambling • golden gate • Granite • grief-filled • grooms • Harness • Hills • horserace • horseracing • Horse Racing • human construct • ill-repute • insubstantial • insular world • Jockeys • late 70's • lending validity • Leveraged • master weaver • Motel • narrative thrust handicapping • Neuron • parallel journeys • philosophical purpose • Pichi • popularly believed • preferred medium • racetrack • radiates • Ranch • Refinement • rightful claim • seasoned • snowcapped • sportsman • Stack • substratum • support human • Synapse • system proved • thoroughbred horses • Thoroughbreds • track life • Trainers • transcendent nature • Uffizi • ultimate acceptance • ultimate value • unlikeliest • unrepeatable • varying times • vivant
• ISBN-13: 9781634509480 / 9781634509480